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‘It will be a gradually growing production plant, up to around 200,000 tonnes a year – it will not be our only plant and we are also in discussion to be off-takers from other biogas initiatives,’ Jippe van Wijnatten, Titan’s Director of Business Development, told delegates at this week’s ship.energy Marine Energy Transition Forum at the Port of Antwerp.
Titan will scale up Liquefied Biomethane (LBM, also known as bio-LNG) production in the Port of Amsterdam together with BioValue as the biogas supplier. Linde has also been contracted to undertake the basic engineering.
BioValue, one of the largest biogas suppliers in the Netherlands, will construct a new biogas plant, adjacent to the LBM plant. The remaining biogas will be sourced from other production installations throughout Europe that are connected to the existing gas grid.
The bulk of the LBM volumes produced by the plant will be supplied to the LBM-powered vessels of Titan’s unnamed launching customer. According to Titan, for the remaining volumes truck refuelling stations and industrial customers are also within scope.
Substituting LBM for fossil fuels will achieve a reduction of around one million tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions per year, equal to the annual emissions of about 25% of all diesel cars in the Netherlands.
The plant will be located adjacent to Titan’s berth in the Port of Amsterdam from whom the land will be leased. This is also the home location of Titan’s FlexFueler 1 bunker barge.
According to van Wijnatten, the project is now in the permitting phase and will go to a Final Investment Decision (FID) in the coming year. The first LBM production is expected in 2025.
The project will only source biogas from sustainable feedstocks that are compliant with the latest EU Renewable Energy Directive, and are International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) certified. Other sustainable integrations in the plant include the capture and utilisation of the biogenic CO2 side stream, and a hydrogen-ready design. This enables future production of e-methane where the biogenic CO2 is combined with green hydrogen. For this, a connection to the hydrogen backbone planned in the Port of Amsterdam is envisaged, says Titan.
Ronald van Selm, CTO at Titan, commented: ‘Titan is committed to decarbonise shipping by supplying LBM and any other renewable fuels such as hydrogen-derived methane, also known as E-LNG. Strategic value chain collaborations are paramount to ramping up alternative fuel production to the scale required for shipping. We are proud of the joint efforts with BioValue and look forward to a long-lasting partnership.’
Van Wijnatten told METF delegates that a 200,000 tonne annual production output equates to around 10,000 truck loads each year or one ‘full’ FlexFueler barge every day. The bioLNG will be loaded onto Titan bunkering vessels or distributed via truck, he said.
Van Wijnatten also said that the company is also in discussion about the development of more bioLNG facilities in other locations.
Titan has undertaken bunkering operations in Europe, Asia and the Caribbean and the company envisages that there will be as many as 1,000 LNG-fuelled vessels in operation in three years’ time.
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